komponisto comments on Eight Short Studies On Excuses - Less Wrong

210 Post author: Yvain 20 April 2010 11:01PM

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Comment author: komponisto 30 September 2010 11:18:05PM 0 points [-]

I point out that phenomenon X is bad.

You didn't just do that. You said that the teacher's words don't match their meaning.

I don't understand. That was the phenomenon in question.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 01 October 2010 12:58:53AM 1 point [-]

You can (like newerspeak, with the well-chosen username) think that the choice of idiom has bad consequences. I might agree, but only contingently on my political beliefs about education. But to say that an idiom is wrong is a category error.